Tuesday, July 02, 2013

Birmingham Public Library will present Journeys Through Islamic History and Religion, a free program for public audiences featuring some of the resources in the Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys, a collection of materials from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the American Library Association (ALA). Journeys Through Islamic History and Religion features Dr. Walter Ward, Assistant Professor of History, UAB. The program will be held on Monday, July 8, 6:30 p.m., at Avondale Library, 509 40th Street South. The program aims to familiarize public audiences in the United States with the people, places, history, faith and cultures of Muslims in the United States and around the world. The Springville Road Library will be screening one of the documentaries from the collection, Prince among Slaves, Sunday, July 7, at 3:00 p.m. The Springville Road Library is located at 1224 Springville Road. The Birmingham Museum of Art will present an Artbreak, Tuesday, July 9, at noon. Museum curators will explore a variety of Islamic art pieces currently on exhibit at the Museum. For more information about the Artbreak check the Birmingham Museum of Art website at http://www.artsbma.org/events/artbreaks.

The Muslim Journeys Bookshelf includes the following titles, organized by theme:

American Stories

A Quiet Revolution by Leila Ahmed

Prince Among Slaves by Terry Alford

The Columbia Sourcebook of Muslims in the United States, edited by Edward E. Curtis IV

Acts of Faith by Eboo Patel

The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman’s Journey to Love and Islam by G. Willow Wilson

Connected Histories

The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance by Jim Al-Khalili

In an Antique Land by Amitav Ghosh

When Asia Was the World: Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created the “Riches of the East” by Stewart Gordon